BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN" LANGUAGES COOS 403 



tcL'tcu tE la^ scto'^s hdl e^L.'aha'l^wat why (is it) that that thing stiff 

 (is) which, you have on 110.4:, 5 



lo has a nominal force, and denotes that kind, such a thing. It 

 always precedes the object. 



a'yu Id Tc'i'LoHs hs pa'xwiya surely, that kind he found, the man- 



zanita berries 32.10, 11 

 tso a'yu Id ha^Hs now surely, that thing she made 60.16 



When preceded by a possessive pronoun. Id expresses the idea of 

 property. 



her^'ne^ Id tE qE'ma that camas belongs to me 112.6, 7 

 Lo has a local meaning, and may be translated by in it, on it. It 

 always follows the object to which it refers. 



p^sih' oftsEm Ld ni'dtc xaP-p hay'' we a cup give me, in it a little 



water have 68.17, 18 

 tseti'x'ume Ld he^'he^ ha^'wEl on this side make a knot (literally, 



where this side is, on it a knot make) 92.7, 8 



k'!dn MY ABSENT. The prefix of this possessive pronoun may be 

 regarded as a demonstrative pronoun (see pp. 323, 399). 



THE NUMERAL (§§ 101-102) 

 § 101. The Cardinals 



The Coos numeral system is of a quinary origin, and, strictly 

 speaking, there are only five simple numeral stems; namely, those for 

 the first five numerals. The numerals for six, seven, eight, and nine 

 are compounds, the second elements of which can not be explained. 

 In the same manner the numeral for ten defies all attempts at analysis. 



Besides the cardinals, Coos exhibits special forms for the ordinal, 

 multiplicative, and distributive numerals, formed by means of adding 

 certain numeral suffixes to the cardinal numerals (see §§ 74-77). 



§ 101 



